Forbes announced the ranking of the ten richest people in the world to the February 1, 2024. In this way, as reported, these ten magnates accumulated a total of US$1.44 trillion.
The two millionaires who earned the most last month they were the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerbergwho increased his fortune with US$12.4 billion more and the CEO of LVMH, Bernard Arnaultwhich during January advanced US$10.1 billion.
Many billionaires have much of their net worth in the stock of the company they founded or co-founded. As the price of those shares moves, your fortune moves with them.
Who are the 10 richest people in the world?
- Bernard Arnault
- Elon Musk
- Jeff Bezos
- Larry Ellison
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Warren Buffett
- Bill Gates
- Larry Page
- Steve Ballmer
- Sergey Brin
1. Bernard Arnault
He CEO and president of LVMHbuilt the largest luxury goods company in the worldnails on 70 fashion and cosmetic brands. Among the most notable: Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Moet & Chandon and Sephora. In this way, it currently has US$210.8 billion.
He Arnault’s father did million in the construction business. Thanks to that, Bernard could use US$15 million of that fortune to buy Christian Dior.
Arnault was the richest person in the world for most of the first half of 2023 and fell to second place in June 2023 but now regains first place.
2. Elon Musk
Elon Musk is he CEO from the electric car company teslafrom the rocket company SpaceX and the social network x (ex Twitter). The 52-year-old mogul resides in Austin, Texas, and has a net worth of US$182.6 billion.
His car company represents about two-thirds of his fortune, while he owns the 23% of Tesla between stocks and options. Meanwhile, he bought the social network in October 2022 by US$44,000 million and it is estimated that he has the 74% of the company that now It’s worth less than half of what you paid for it..
Musk too was the richest person in the world for most of 2022until December of that year, when a drop in Tesla stock price He lowered the value of his fortune.
Musk He became the richest person in the world again on June 8, 2023 and remained in the number one spot for the rest of 2023. It fell to number 2 on January 31, 2024 after the ruling by a Delaware judge on January 30 that voided Musk’s nearly $51 billion pay package. The Tesla stock had already fallen in January after the company forecast of lower sales of its electric cars this year.
In this framework, Musk’s fortune fell by US$68.7 billion during the month of January.
3. Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos created the e-commerce giant, amazonin 1994, became his CEO until July 2021 and currently remains its president. His fortune increased by US$3,000 million during January 2023 as a result of a rally in shares of amazon.
In July 2017, Bezos surpassed Bill Gates and became the richest person in the world. She then remained the richest person in the world according to this list from 2018 to 2021, until in 2022 it fell to second place. He fell to fourth place among the richest, but returned to number 3 on January 25 2023 as the Indian’s fortune falls Gautam Adani.
Currently, the Magnate American has a net worth of US$177.4 billion.
Source: Ambito
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